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“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: death, inspirational, voice

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“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes

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